Social class identities - first year

Question 1

What agents help to form identity?

Answer 1

peers
media
religion
family

Question 2

Social class is a system of ……..

Answer 2

Stratification

Question 3

What are the two main descriptive approaches to measuring social class?

Answer 3

The registers general scale

The national statistics socio-economic classification

Question 4

Which sociologists created the great British class survey?

Answer 4

Savage and Divine

Question 5

What are the types of classes in upper class?

Answer 5

Traditional : upper class 
New : super rich

Question 6

What does Scott say about the upper class?

Answer 6

OLD BOY NETWORK

network of contacts through family and connections

Question 7

What 2 processes does Scott say happen in the family for social closure?

Answer 7

Marrying other people of elite class, eg family friends

Giving jobs to children in their companies

Question 8

What does Kenway say?

Answer 8

Privately educated girls get fun and pleasure out of mocking those in lower classes.

Question 9

Whats the most common class in society today?

Answer 9

Middle class

Question 10

What sector do the middle class work in?

Answer 10

Public sector professionals such as teachers

Sometimes private sector such as lawyers

Question 11

What do king and raynor say about the family?

Answer 11

Middle class families encourage achievement and deferred gratification
Child centeredness is a distinct feature middle class families

Question 12

What does Bourdieu say about the middle class and education?

Answer 12

Suggests the hidden curriculum reinforces middle class identities.
eg through imitations, rewards, similar to home

Question 13

What does Bourdieu suggest middle class have?

Answer 13

Cultural capital
middle class values, knowledge, language levels

Question 14

What does Goodwin say about the middle class and peer groups?

Answer 14

Yummy mummies

Defined by peer approval

Question 15

What does Saunders say about the middle class and media?

Answer 15

Conspicuous consumption
Media targets the middle class cause they have the most disposable income

Question 16

What does Neo marxist wright say about middle class and workplace?

Answer 16

Contradictory class position

Question 17

What does willis say about the working class and workplace?

Answer 17

anti school sub culture
‘lads’
‘learning to labour’

Question 18

What does Mac an ghail say about working class?

Answer 18

Crisis of masculinity
Macho lads
Deindustrialisation

Question 19

What do Bowles and Gintis say about the workplace and working class?

Answer 19

Hidden curriculum transmits ruling class values disguised as common values.
This is a way to make children obedient workers

Question 20

What do Mertens and D’Haenens say about the media and working class?

Answer 20

Lower classes use the internet less and social class is the biggest factor affecting media use.

Question 21

What does Murray say about the under class?

Answer 21

Underclass are lazy, workshop, immoral and criminal

Question 22

Who are the postmodernists who look at social class?

What do they say?

Answer 22

Pakulski and waters

Shift from production to consumption

Question 23

What did postmodernist Skeggs say?

Answer 23

Working class women had instrumental attitudes to work and have no sense of class injustice